Making them up as I go (2)

1. Tell the truth.
2. Entice, or fail.
3. To emphasize, summarize.
4. If it ain't short, it don't work.
5. Be clear.


And so I don't forget:
Don't explain. Just tell a story.
Don't argue. Just say things that make sense.
Expect people to be bored by the writing, and shorten it.
Make the wording easy to take.

Remove Loose Ends -- the interesting one-liners that go nowhere.

Friday, September 23, 2016

Literacy skills

Found this in the new 70-page PDF from the Harvard Business School Survey on U.S. Competitiveness, Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided:
Younger cohorts of U.S. workers have higher literacy scores than older cohorts in absolute terms, reflecting U.S. skills improvement over time. But workers elsewhere have improved even faster. American workers from earlier generations are more literate than their international peers of the same age, but younger U.S. workers are less literate than their peers.
Younger Americans are more literate than older Americans? That depends on your standard of literacy.